Christopher Creutzig wrote:
> mee wrote:
>> On Jun 15, 5:50 am, dmac...@gmail.com wrote:
>>> Can someone translate the following in Japanese:
>>> I speak Japanese. Do you?
>>
>> I'm pretty sure it would be this:
>>                      watashi wa nihongo o hanasukoto ga dekimasu. 
>> anata wa?
> 
> 
>  Not that I really speak Japanese, but I'd go for
> 
> 私は日本語がはなえします。あなたは？
> watashi wa, nihongo ga hanaeshimasu. anata wa?
> 
> or something like that, preferably replacing anata by the addressee's name.

(a) Drop the "私は". It makes it sound stilted and gaijinish, and
sounding like "well, I don't know about the rest of you, but *I*
speak Japanese!"

(b) do your homework on conjugating the potential form of 話す.

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